Founded in London during 1974, Joint Stock Theatre Company took
part in the flowering of the countercultural fringe and alternative
theatre that emerged in Britain, Europe, and America in the late
1960s and early 1970s. Initially conceived in 1973 as a sort of
“umbrella” producing organisation for its founders Max
Stafford-Clark, David
Hare and David Aukin, Joint Stock soon created a workshop-based
method of text creation in collaboration with playwrights and
reorganised itself as a collective. The group also began to define
itself as a socialist theatre company. This identification inspired
and troubled Joint Stock throughout its existence, and although
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